I Am the Doorway Summary

Artie is an astronaut who has retired to the Florida Keys because of an accident that leaves him paralyzed. Artie is sitting on his front porch telling his friend and neighbor, Richard, why he believes he killed a local kid the night before. Richard does not believe Artie because the story is outrageous, so he asks Artie to start again, from the beginning. Artie tells Richard how he was sent into space on a mission to Venus. On the way to Venus, they had trouble with a radio transmitter they were using to transmit a generic message to anything that might be listening. Artie's partner went out to fix it and they continued to Venus. They made four orbits of the planet and returned to Earth. There was an accident on reentry causing them to hit the...